The New Parkway theater gets ready to open its doors in Uptown Oakland

The New Parkway is located at 474 24th Street, right off of Telegraph Avenue. The theater will open its doors to the public before the end of the year.

It’s Wednesday night and a party is underway in Uptown Oakland. Inside a blue building decorated with graffiti, over 200 people are celebrating the return of Oakland’s beloved Parkway movie theater, which will open its doors to the public before the end of the year.

Managed by New Parkway Entertainment LLC, a group of 56 investors, the new theater will carry the same concept that made the original Parkway so popular in the community: It will offer cheaper tickets, feature second-run movies and serve food and beer to patrons who can dine while seated on couches. Theoriginal Parkway closed in 2009 after a string of disputes with the theater’s landlord and a failed expansion that led the Parkway’s initial owners to briefly open a second theater in El Cerrito.

“I’m very thrilled with the new theater,” said Oakland resident and Parkway patron Denise Mewborne as she gazed at a wall ornament made out ofwine corks.“This even feels like the old place.”